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Israeli LGBT “Peripheralization” Becoming Periphery: Israeli LGBT “Peripheralization” Gilly Hartal1 The Gender Studies Program, Bar-Ilan University. Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 5290002, Israel [email protected] phone: +972-54-959-9400 Abstract Over the past decade, the Israeli LGBT community has undergone processes of mainstreaming, institutionalization and assimilation, most of which took place in Tel Aviv, the Israeli center. Simultaneously, the Israeli peripheries were perceived as “empty”, as spaces that have limited or no LGBT visibility and presence. This article focuses on LGBT activists’ experiences in LGBT activist spaces in the peripheries. I argue that rather than reproducing the center-periphery power structure, LGBT activists are subverting the paradigm, while creating practices and imaginaries that engender a mode of becoming periphery. This mode is comprised of three major processes of becoming: the first belies the notion of the peripheries as spaces LGBT individuals can only depart from; the second subverts the discourse of LGBT peripheries as empty spaces; and the third offers a dual consideration of the center-periphery power relationship, both accepting the structure and the peripheries’ place within it but also deviating from the passiveness, static stances, emptiness and restrictive forms of sexuality. LGBT in the peripheries have begun creating a distinct kind of peripheral notion that diverges both from being an LGBT individual in the center and from the framing of Israeli peripheries. 1 Published under Creative Commons licence: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works Becoming Periphery: Israeli LGBT “Peripheralization” 572 Keywords Periphery-center/core; LGBT space; urban-rural; queer migration; LGBT activism Introduction There are actually no places to go out to around here. There is no one to get to know […]. Even today, when we have all these apps like Grindr. When I’m in Tel Aviv they [gays connected to Grindr] are all 50 meters away, 20 meters away. Here it’s 30 kilometers away, and most of them are from Lebanon. I start writing [in Hebrew] to someone: ‘Hey, where from?’ and he answers: ‘English please’ and I write: ‘Where from?’ and he answers: ‘Lebanon’. It’s very flattering to get responses from Lebanese gays but …. That’s not where I’ll find my salvation (Tal). Tal, IGY (Israeli Gay Youth organization) group facilitator in Kiryat Shmona, locates Kiryat Shmona, a geographical, symbolic and socially peripheral city in Israel, indicating that the space is barren, where the Lebanese “dots” on Grindr2 are closer to him than gays in Tel Aviv, isolating him in a backwards space where such technology is irrelevant since there are not enough local users. Within lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT)3 discourses, the peripheries are commonly considered spaces that have nothing but homophobia to offer to LGBT individuals, who are encouraged to leave for the center where they are thought to belong. This dynamic, of LGBT peripheries, is at the heart of this article. Over the past decade, the Israeli LGBT community has undergone processes of mainstreaming, institutionalization and assimilation, for the most part in Tel Aviv, the Israeli LGBT center. One of the consequences of these processes, for example, is the foundation of the Gay-Center, a municipally funded space that houses social movements, cultural events, self-help groups and other programs. Tel Aviv’s Gay-Center functions as a location-space-mechanism that maintains an LGBT fantasy about being in the center and reinvents hegemonic Israeli LGBT discourses as well as sexual, gendered, national and geographical exclusions (Hartal and Sasson-Levy, forthcoming). Simultaneously, the peripheries and particularly LGBT individuals’ lives in the peripheries are constructed within the center’s discourse as disrupted, sad and lonely. Specifically, the Israeli peripheries in the Galilee and in the Negev are 2 A mobile location-based app used as a social network for gays. 3 In order to be consistent with the local activists’ terminology I will use the term LGBT. The term queer will be used in accordance with its usage in the literature as a methodological approach to the LGBT subject in the peripheries. Notwithstanding gender as a pivotal category in the analysis of LGBT lives and spaces, this article will include LGBT individuals’ experiences in an integrated way in order to highlight a process of becoming peripheries for LGBT activists. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, 2015, 14(2), 571-597 573 perceived as “empty”, as a space that has limited or no LGBT visibility and presence. Nonetheless, LGBT activists in the peripheries refuse to embrace an understanding of the Israeli center and specifically the Tel Aviv Gay-Center as “their” center. This choice leads to a process of meaning construction, in which peripheral LGBT spaces manifest new temporal, geographical and social meanings for known practices in which backwardness and Otherness are not rejected but rather incorporated in queer ways. Sociological studies classify Israel as a pro-natal, pro-family and militaristic society (Berkovitch, 1997; Izraeli, 1999; Kahn, 2000; Kimmerling, 1993). Familism serves as the backbone of the Israeli social order in which the normative family is thought to be pivotal and is maintained through religious Orthodox marriage (Fogiel-Bijaoui, 1999). Also, the militaristic character of society along with its derivative masculinity plays a focal role in the construction of identities that reproduce participation in and belonging to the state (Sasson-Levy and Rapoport, 2003). Even though there is no civil marriage institution, and thus LGBT individuals cannot formally and legally marry in Israel, Jewish Israeli LGBT individuals are considered part of the Israeli collective. Moreover, being an LGBT individual does not preclude individuals from military service, which in Israel is compulsory. Thus, most LGBT-identified individuals in Israel serve in the military, and their identification with the state and with the nation goes without saying (Gross, 2000). Since the beginning of the 21st century there have been LGBT voices and grassroots activities resisting the discourses and the practices of the Israeli occupation. These have mostly stemmed from feminist communities and aim at challenging the identification of LGBT individuals with Zionism and the nation as well as to try to affect Israeli policy. These institutions of family, reproduction and the military are crucial for understanding the cultural context in which this paper is embedded; where heteronormativity is a powerful ethos. While there is a great deal of acceptance of LGBT individuals and culture in Tel Aviv, homophobia and violence towards LGBT individuals has not stopped. Therefore, even though Tel Aviv seems like a space of acceptance, the heteronormative model and its imperatives are highly relevant to LGBT individuals’ lives in Israel, both in the center and in the peripheries. In this article I focus on power relations and perspectives which are internal to LGBT activist communities in peripheral LGBT spaces in Israel. Therefore, the analysis will mainly concentrate on inner activist politics and not on heteronormative society and its impact on LGBT individuals and activists. As part of a larger ethnographic qualitative research study into LGBT activist spaces in the Israeli center and peripheries, this article discusses LGBT peripheries “as a political, social and spatial phenomenon” (Tzfadia and Yacobi, 2011, 1) and articulates the ways in which LGBT authenticity manifests itself Becoming Periphery: Israeli LGBT “Peripheralization” 574 differently in distinct spaces, specifically focusing on rural and small-town LGBT activist, social, metaphorical, material and relational spaces. Taylor (2011, 194), in her research on the intersections of class and rural queers, argues that “their accounts disrupt the bifurcated view of ‘the rural’ as a space of non-existence or hostility, against ‘the urban’ as imagined utopia.” The division of the rural-urban binary has been essentially criticized by Andrew Gorman-Murray (2007, 113) who points to the “crucial significance of peripatetic, non-linear paths of migration which have been silenced in rural–urban frameworks of queer migration,” as well as by Larry Knopp (2004, 123) who suggests that not location but movement itself produces “emotional and ontological security” for queer individuals. Moreover, Andrucki and Dickinson (2014, 215) revisit the concept of centrality, illustrating how centers and margins emerge as dynamic spaces of becoming, “as varied, and as various as the bodies that perform them.” In light of these arguments, that rural and peripheral spaces form contested modes of becoming for LGBT individuals, and not just one rural-urban binary, this article probes how peripheries and LGBT discourses are related, as produced by LGBT activists. More particularly, I explore the production and achievement of LGBT peripheries in Israel, suggesting that a focus on the disciplinary mechanisms that construct the politics of LGBT peripheral space offers a critique of Western rural geographies of sexualities. Concentrating on two Israeli processes which have not been researched together before, peripheralization and LGBT discourses, this article describes LGBT activists’ experiences in the peripheries and how these experiences relate to peripheral spaces showing how they encompass a mode of becoming and potential transformation. This article opens with a
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